The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-09
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ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN
Mrs. FRANCES C. MIxrER edited
''Our Home Corner" in the Ataol
Chronicle for more than five years.
She is a contributor to Good House
keeping and other journals.
Mrs. Corr, of Pleasant Valley, Wis.
who was elected town treasurer. has
just secured her Office in spite Of Wig
orous opposition on the part of the
male office-holders Of the town.
Mrs. SALL1E JOY WHITE. of the Bos-
ton Herald, will read paper on ''WOm-
en- in Journalism" at the third an
nual meeting of the National Press As
ISOLATION. to be held in September, in
Denver. Col.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has
entered into arrangements with Mr..
Edward w. Box. of Brooklyn, to fur
nish series of articles for newspa-
pers. They will be weekly, written es-
pecially for women.
DIR: JULIET MONROE THORPE. daugh-
ter of Ohio's President of the w. C. 7.
u, Mrs. Henrietta L. Monroe. has been
elected to the faculty of the OHIO Med
ical College at Cincinnati. This is a
rare compliment to gifted woman.
Miss MINNIE PHELPS. of st. Gather
ines. Canada, took the honOrs of the
oratory class in the College of Oratory,
Philadelphia. and was chosen. because
of her standing, to speak in the Phila-
delphia Academy of Music on COM
mcncement night. She selected the
temperance question for her theme.
speaking before a fine audience, and
was encored.
Mrs j. X. BARNEY. of Providence.
has an excellent paper in the issue of
Lend-a-Hand for August on '.Police
Matrons." Mrs. Barney speaks from
experience; her office as a representa-
tive of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union calling her to per-
sonal examinations of police stations
and the condition of the unhappy
women found in them. The whole
number of this valuable magazine is
specially interesting.
Mrs. SARAH PETERS, wife of the
British Consul ut Philadelphia, in 1847,
founded during her residence there a
school of design for women. which has
grown to be the largest institution of
its kind in the country. The Phila-
delphia Record speaks with pride of the
prospects of the school for the coming
year. Mrs. Peters was an able advo-
cate of equal rights for women. She
felt the evils of the usual mode of dress
to the extent that she assumed. for
time, the Bloomer costume. modified.
A DAUGHTER of Ogden Bradley. OF
New York, and niece of Bishop Nicely,
of Maine. has won diploma from the
famous Paris School of Medicine. pass
ing a brilliant examina ton and re-
ceiving the maximum mark. Her
thesis was .'Iodism." and for an hour
and half she was shrewdly and ably
questioned by four of the leading pro-
fcssors of the school, each of whom
had been provided with u copy of the
thesis. She wore the black gown and
fchu prescribed for candidates.
MRs. POTTER, of Scranton, Pa. is
evidently woman not t. be imposed
upon. The Philadelphia Record relates
that the other day she ordered a man
to stop painting her fence. He re.
fused. and she turned on him her gar
den hose and drenched him to the
skin. Then another man cape on the
scene who told the first man to paint
the fence, and directed the latter to go
on with his work, and with a pistol
pointed at Mrs. Potter. told her if she
put the hose on again he would shoot
her. The hose was put on them both.
and theJ left suddenly.
Miss MARIAN E. SHELDON, daughter
of Mr.. w. E. Sheldon. has recently adj
mitted to the girls school of which she
is principal. in Adabazar, Turkey. the
first Moslem girl who ever entered the
lists for a regular education. Miss
Sheldon began teaching in the Ian
guage after being in the country five
months. She has translated two Amer
lean textbooks into the Armenian.
Adabazar, where she is located. is one
hundred miles east of COnstantinOple.
The Turkish Governor of the province
has, through the agency of Miss Shell
don. become much interested in the
education of girls